In: Operations Management
This assignment will assess the competency 6. Examine how successful leaders enable others to act.
Directions: For this assignment, imagine you are the lead on a new project. You must put together a team of people to complete the project in a timely fashion. Use the information you learned from this learning plan as you answer the following questions:
• What is the project? (Could be real or
imagined.)
• Who is on your team, and why? (Consider the types of people you
will want on this team.)
• What can you to do ensure the team can work together effectively?
(What’s the plan here?)
• How will you “enable the team to act” through the project
completion?
Your essay should be at least 2 pages in length
a. a project can be any kind of work, which have some unique specifications like, specific starting and ending point of dates, having multiple works and tasks, requires resources like material, money, manpower and machine power to complete it. creating an output like a product, or a service is called project. There group of activities are there, which interlink with one another.
for this discussion I have taken conducting FRESHERS PARTY as my project, which is real. In general, we organize Freshers day party and Farewell parties to the juniours who are fresh to college and seniors who exit from the college. I have taken this as project and proceed for further discussions.
b. Our team consists of many people, were desigend teams based on the works we divided. the nature, types and number of works we divided this as follows:
all these teams were selected and designed based on the nature of the work, and considering the interests of the students who are willing to participate in those events and activities.
c. once we elected right people in our group, team and to the work, all we works together and integratedly. all we sit together and prepare action plan for this. all these works and teams will be headed by one person (others are team members) and all team leaders will meet daily once in the afternoon time, and discuss about our progress, pending works and other aspects what we need.
there may be a gap between the expected and reality, so here too. but we works to minimize the gap and completes the event more succesfully. Once we define the work for each team, the scope and the edges, the team will complete the assigned tasks with their limitations, i think.
d. Once we started working together, understanding the progress of each team, limitations and drawbacks or any backlogs, we discuss about those and lends support from other team and completes the tasks. as team members, we ensure that, whatever the work assigned to us, will completes in the time with the given resources. Integration of all these help us, i.e. succesful completion of all the above works will help us to complete this in great manner.